Inequality and economic policy: essays in honor of Gary Becker
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Hoover Institution Press : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780817919061 (electronic bk.) MWT11703419, 0817919066 (electronic bk.) 11703419
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress
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